Drawing hearts??

Question

Why is the shape of a heart, when people draw it etc, the shape it is???
Looked nothing like the heart :S

Answer 1

Hearts
While the origins of the heart symbol are unknown, one reasonable guess has come from Bob Bankard, who has associated it with the seed of an extinct plant called Silphium. The plant had a thick, fennel-like stalk, large, celery-like leaves and would bear heart-shaped fruit known as phyllon.

The plant was not only a food-source but also was known to have medicinal properties. Bankard supposes that Silphium's heart-shaped seeds have become associated with love due to their use as a method of birth control. Because sex and love often go hand in hand, the shape of this seed, our modern depiction of the heart, is the symbol of love.

Valentine's Day hearts usually show a heart symbol pierced by an arrow. While this represents the pain associated with love, it also reflects the way in which love captures the heart. Additionally, the arrow through the heart illustrates energy and penetration (another link between the heart, love and sex). Most know the shooter of that arrow as Cupid.

Answer 2

It is because the heart is full of emotions, and emotions needs focus. and artists picture it like an unsatisfactory shape, not zero, not oval, not straight. but the combination of all these shapes to make meaning to the observer.

If you will picture it the way it realy is; with all those channels, turnells and pipes running away from a point to the other, you will be more confused.

Answer 3

Perhaps the heart symbol as in 'the symbol of love' is meant to represent two hearts as one. It seems more to me that if it was in half it would look more like the anatomical heart.

Answer 4

well, ppl use 2 draw it like dat, so now everyone does it. easy!

Answer 5

I blame the Victorians, they seem to have started it.

Answer 6

why ask why?